Upload a folder

Choose New, then Upload folder. Pick the folder on your device and choose Add. Drive rebuilds the folder tree as it uploads, so the structure you see on your computer is the structure you get in Drive.

Upload

1. Choose New, then Upload folder. The panel opens with the title Upload folder.
2. Check Save to and change the destination if the folder does not belong in My Drive.
3. Choose Choose folder and pick the folder. Dragging the folder onto the panel works too.
4. Review the selection summary. It reports the detected upload type, the file count and the total size.
5. Choose Add.

The panel states what it preserves: Sub-folders are preserved; empty folders are created too. Per-file rules still apply, and the 1,000-file limit counts every file in the tree.

If you are already in the panel in files mode, Or add a folder switches to the folder picker without closing anything.

Empty folders

Drive can create an empty folder only when your browser tells it the folder exists. Dragging the folder in, or picking it in a browser that supports the directory picker, reports empty folders; choosing files through the plain file dialog does not.

When empty folders are included, the summary lists each one as Empty folder and names the path that will be created. After the upload, Drive reports each path as uploaded, or as a folder that already exists.

What Drive skips

Operating-system noise is dropped without asking: .DS_Store, any file starting ._, and a top-level __MACOSX directory. Nothing else is filtered; unsupported files inside the tree are rejected individually.

If it did not work

• The selected folder could not be opened. means the browser refused the directory picker. Drag the folder onto the panel instead.
• Cancelling the picker closes it silently. Nothing is queued.
• A message naming one folder that could not be created applies to that empty folder alone. The files elsewhere in the tree still upload.
• For a rejected file inside the folder, see Accepted file types and Upload failed.